Still, it doesn’t make sense to most people as to why an increasing number of corporations would advocate and advance leftist political issues when in the end it just means higher corporate taxes. But if you stop thinking logically and instead look at this phenomenon through a different set of eyes it’s actually quite apparent what corporations are doing. And what you’ll find is that it’s a combination of today’s Gen X’ers taking over corporate leadership roles combined with a lack of any new ideas or talent.
Welcome to the new marketing strategy of corporate America.
Another ridiculous essay cc.
These Gen xers are not less smart or energetic than the generation before them. They are lefties just as many of the execs of previous generations were – New York is full of them.
Many see leftism as good marketing and a good HR hiring tool. – both are good business reasons.
I could go on and on – the essay is riddled with unfounded accusations (as usual it seems)
“[In] the end it just means higher corporate taxes.”
Which inevitably results in higher costs to the consumer.
A corporation that chooses to absorb the costs of doing business (including higher taxes) and not factor them into its pricing is a bankrupt corporation.
Regulation favors the biggest, most established, companies – so most of the Fortune 1000 companies are big democratic donors – just as Canada’s biggest companies are all big liberal donors.
I thought the really big money boys hedge their bets by making donations to both parties.
Well Gord on the movie front, do you see any original thought? Every Hollywood movie is either “end of the world” or some dopey CG superhero movie to stop end of the world, and the decent Fury and a few others get little publicity over the left wing garbage. Wife had X files on, sat down for 1 leftie preachy stupid episode, enough for me. Look at our Canadian media, have you seen any TV or print publication yet that isn’t on its knees fellating the Justy. All about control and fabricated stories now, original thought and frontier thinking is frowned on and done quickly away with in this ever increasing Justy society.
Funny … I would have thought that BIG U.S. Corporations have embraced Leftist (read: Federal Govt.) policies because of Crony Capitalism. i.e. these giant corporations get massive revenues directly from Fed. Govt. purchasing … not to mention get regulated and inspected by the Fed. Govt.
The so-called Free Market is nothing, if not pragmatic … it knows EXACTLY where its largest revenues originate … and it panders to that “customer” … The Leftist Federal Government.
Corporations are scared poop-less at the prospect of a TRUE Conservative Revolution (not the faux Republican Establishment). The very thought of Federal spending caps, and fiscal responsibility … not to mention a stop to the flooding of Illegal (cheap) labor into America shakes Corporate America to its core.
Compared to Hollywood of the early sixties the movie industry is vastly more innovative.
But the real innovation is not on the big screen – it’s on tv/Netflix – breaking bad, house of cards etc etc. Incredibly well done in almost every aspect.
It really just boils down to fear. Fear of social media retaliation for any corporation who dares step outside of the Liberal agenda. So not only do corporations invoke ‘green’ and ‘diversity’ in every product they make, they feel obligated to hire those who espouse those ideals. It’s a vicious circle. Although Trump has certainly opened the door for these Corps to say F’ Off to the SJWs.
My business has been forced to adopt a public ‘green and ‘diverse’ image. However, while in the privacy of my own office I make all business decisions from a purely right wing perspective. There is no greater joy than taking money from a silk-stocking socialist using their own stupidity as a bargaining tool.
” increasingly left”? 99% of the corpse’s in NH are so far left now the only left to them is full blown Commie!! This goes for most “charities ” also.
Speaking of which – are there any Tim Hortons located near the oil patch that are beginning to feel the hurt from Alberta’s economic downturn?
Cause y’know… that’d be a shame given that they’re against big oil and all.
Big business loves big government and big regulation as it makes it much more difficult for smaller companies to compete.
Additionally there is no economic upside for a company to buck political correctness and the sustainability chant of the enviro-whackos.
They are lefty because it is “good business” not to piss off the progressive thugs in Government who will destroy your company with bureaucratic bludgeons. It is simply massive public sector corruption, typically called crony-capitalism to slam the free market, rather than what it is, a blended flavour of totalitarianism.
The Cap isn’t all wrong though. The latest generation has been indoctrinated to believe the reality challenged BS. They are either intellectually lazy or simply dumbed down is irrelevant, the pain they will cause society will be devastating to all except the rulers.
You’ve pretty much nailed it right there. Corporatism and free enterprise are not the same thing, and in actuality are at odds with one another.
This is why big corporations loved National Socialism…easy to make the competition “go away”. That and they could loot Jewish businesses at pennies on the dollar.
Corporations are increasingly leftist because all of our educational institutions are increasingly leftist. Senior positions in corporations get filled by people with degrees from these institutions.
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Speaking of which – are there any Tim Hortons located near the oil patch that are beginning to feel the hurt from Alberta’s economic downturn?
Cause y’know… that’d be a shame given that they’re against big oil and all.”
Interesting enough, here around the Edmonton area, it’s Starbucks who is taking a kicking. Timmie’s will follow though,not so much because of their anti-oil stance,but 100,000 unemployed simply start scrimping the pennies a heck of a lot more.
Atheism leaves a void in character…filled by whatever
with the ever increasing demands of regulation and compliance, large companies become ever more bureaucratic and risk adverse.
To “deal” with the government they create internal bureaus, who speak the “language”.
Economic necessity to avoid government “misunderstanding”, criminal convictions and heavy fines.
For there is no law, in the regulation and protection business of our kleptocracy.
The crime is whatever the minion wants it to be, ditto the punishment.
Entirely subjective,undefined thus indefensible .
Then as Lorne Russell points out, they take the easy route, using their interface with govt agencies to gain competitive advantage.
By encouraging use of government force and obstruction against their competition.
Why not misery loves company.
The best financial return comes from sliding by, no confrontation.
The shareholders insist.
Eventually the cost of compliance becomes so high the business is no longer the original service but compliance itself.
This is bureaucracy, sand in the gearbox of productive society, producing little useful and grinding the citizen to a standstill.
Bottom line, the corporation can not win, either they become government or they cease to be.
Liberalism is a progressive disease.
Most business schools are essentially sociopathic when it comes to extolling the virtues of rent seeking. It is a wonderful substitute for lack of ideas of how to ethically “grow the business”. I spent a quarter century within the corporate world before going consulting and found it career limiting to speak out against “innovative” rent seekers climbing the corporate ladder rather than focusing on such “banal” and discomforting acts as improving efficiency. I concluded that too many mature organizations preferred rock star carpet-baggers and next-quarter bean counters in the executive suites rather than boring bread and butter asset managers let alone corporate visionaries.
I can agree with most of this post but in terms of this problem being a recent phenomenon, I would point out the publishing of Atlas Shrugged in 1957 in which these issues are exhaustively demonstrated.
Leftism creates guilt in the mind of these children leaders for actually being a success.
In order to wash away the guilt they have found lefty causes make them feel better.
This thinking can only truly work well when the company makes countless millions/billions.
The Mom & Pop small business is swamped by high taxes and regulations and fluctuates between one year in the black and the next in the red.
Reality is the best teacher for Capitalism. Today’s “leaders” have forgotten what it’s like to make a payroll.
Lorne:
You are spot on. Statists love one company for one industry. There is less paperwork to do. The big company loves regulation which shuts out competition. The big companies get market share and higher profitability.
The examples are numerous: Nestles and Switzerland, Volvo and Sweden, Bombardier and Canada.
You missed a few….primarily those large companies that Hitler took over. Actually fascism and crony capitalism are pretty much the same thing. You see a lot of it in the so-called “renewable energy” fraud.
“Still, it doesn’t make sense to most people as to why an increasing number of corporations would advocate and advance leftist political issues when in the end it just means higher corporate taxes. But if you stop thinking logically and instead look at this phenomenon through a different set of eyes it’s actually quite apparent what corporations are doing. And what you’ll find is that it’s a combination of today’s Gen X’ers taking over corporate leadership roles combined with a lack of any new ideas or talent.”
It makes perfect sense to me. It’s called surrender. It’s called Suncor running ads about people going to their “safe places.” It’s called watching the GOP beat itself in the last two POTUS elections. It’s what Carly Fiorina means when she argues bigger business is a response to bigger government. She gets a gold star for that one. It’s called society unwilling to do the math.
The eventual result is we elect economic illiterates, addled by the progressivity removed from any thinking reflecting reality or common sense. Was it that long ago that a politician would have been chucked off to the loony bin for nattering about the existential threat of climate change? They’d be right up there with moon landing deniers. IMO that’s where they belong.
Bedraggled and bearded old men with cups in hand had the purview of that idiocy before this current madness began, where lower energy prices are “bad” for the economy and higher taxes induce economic growth. No, low oil prices are short term bad for producers, but are always bad for government, addicted to higher tax revenues, dishonestly claiming they “create jobs.”
Now the poorest are the first to get crushed as statists’ reform society and the citizen, dutifully removing all references other than government, not a free individual, but a politically correct automaton. Statists think their policies make life better. They don’t, we’re long past that idea. But, citizens still believe that, and short of seeing them beaten about the wallet until it gets through the hide of their beliefs, unless and until they lose their cynicism of politicians, the best liars will continue to win. Hint: when reality doesn’t matter, do idealists or realists win?
Business knows that, so they hedge their bets. They know leftists no longer care about the “most vulnerable.” Trump knew it so gave money to everyone.
Pretty obvious explanation if you ask me.
is this possibly why we keep hearing about enormous severance pkgs when CEOs of wobbly corporations abandon ship? wobbliness that they caused. where in that is the interests of the middle class stock holders?
This essay is full of pooh.
First of all, Apple “bad” uses the same tax-avoiding policies that the other “good” companies on your Captain Crapalism list use, e.g. The Dutch Sandwich.
Second, isn’t Ireland full of Gen-Xers and aren’t they in charge of the low tax policies? So is it just North American Gen-Xers who suck or is there a flaw in your thesis?
Third, there are many great recent movies & TV series – The Matrix, The Borne Identity, Walking Dead, Big Bang Theory, Sopranos.
Forth, have you ever watched a Stephen King movie? He’s a boomer and most of his movies suck. The Mist wasn’t terrible but everyone in my household predicted the ending.
Fifth, have you ever tried watching original 70s television? Most of it is unwatchable garbage. How about the original Anne of Green Gables series? Ground-breaking? Rocky 3? High quality old-school?
Finally, Canadian-made TV is crap. But look at the people behind it. Many are the walking dead 60 year olds who just won’t let go. These people had no talent in the 1980s. The Gen-Xers are probably still getting their coffee at CBC.
Other than that, your essay really sucked.
Absolutely. Taxpayers are not the only group being looted. Shareholders are routinely looted by failing or parasitic executives along with other forms of lavish corporate excess. There are a significant number of failing business models that have little chance of turnaround and serve only to extend executive income stream to the point of bankruptcy. Unlike taxpayers however, shareholders choose to buy in to the situation.
they are leftists because they have the financial control . just try being a small businessman who wants open a coffee shop in a particular area of any town. you jump through hoops and you pay as much as you can to the local government and you finally get your shop opened. you do well until Tims come to town and want to open three places around you. you spent a year and quite a bit of money to your little place up and running. Tims come in with a battery of lawyers and cost means nothing and they are building within 60 days. two years later you are out of business but not before the every level of government has sucked you dry. the leftists won.
Big corporations and big unions love big government, ergo, leftist government. One hand washes the other.
ah slap shit, atheism ain’t the problem. When the church started to lose it’s authoritarian grip it change tactics, they started to brainwash the masses as a method of survival. And it has worked to some degree for them, but the left off shoot to this tactic has fared even better. It has been accomplished without “design”, which is contrary to much of the musing in here over time. Blame the damn church, which are largely lefties even today, again, contrary to the bible banger’s assertions in here
Don’t blame us generation Xers.
We are the tail end of the baby boom and have gotten nothing but table scraps from the fat boomers of the 1950s. Like locust arriving after the swarm has moved on.
The baby boomers kids are another story.
The problem with leftie Corporations is that they benefit from a bloated state that allows them to write the regulators that govern them.
Government likes to look like they care and the corporatists like having regulations and compliance costs that keep startups from eating their lunch.
It’s as old as monopolist corporate charters like Hudson Bay or east India company…
Welcome back to serfdom…!
Ah,, the writer of this story is not looking closely enough at the pea under the thimble. Yes these corporations openly advocate leftist policies, but if you look closer, you find that when these policies are enacted, the costs are transferable to the end users or consumers, or receive huge taxpayer subsidy. Think of it as a tithe to placate the Socialist Borg or give an impression of doing so. Look at the NDP Climate Change policies in Alberta. You will find that the Oil companies will be allowed to increase emissions by 42% over the next 15 years, and receive taxpayer subsidy to help fund emission cutting technology. How does this hurt Big Oil. This example can be found throughout Industry as a whole.
Yep. Spot on. I like the use of “tithe” … so very true. I also think of it (adopting “green” and other assorted leftist causes) as an “inoculation” against the predictable leftist “outrage” if corporations didn’t “play ball” with the government/eco/racial cabal.
It’s really no different than what I did throughout my college years. I simply regurgitated every hardcore leftist ideology espoused by my professors. I am sure they all patted themselves on the back for grooming such a good little Commie-clone … little did they know that I could hardly contain my laughter at their insipid beliefs. They truly believed I was one of them. Ha ha ha ha ah ah ah ha ha ha
“Recent”
Really Steve?
The Matrix was 1999.
Bourne, 2002.
Big Bang began in 2007.
The Sopranos ended in 2007.
Granted, the Walking Dead began in 2010, so it is at least from this decade.
Get with the times Steve.
I used to think that CC was a misogynist, now I realize he’s just an asshole.
Easy peasy. The now mostly late baby boomer heads of corporations just have to put in the next few years and they’re out’a there with comfy stock and pensions.
Just gott’a hang in there hoping the crocodile doesn’t get to you before then. Plus, they really, really believe that if they make a few concessions, they’ll strike a deal that the enviro’s et al will honour. Won’t happen.
How’s this for the ongoing indoctrination that has led to the above. Our local rag, predictably progressive (we just lost somewhat more balanced Nanaimo Daily News, after 141 yres.) just reported this: “Teachers are granted time for new curriculum prep”.
In BC,elementary school teachers are mandated to work a miniumu of 878 hrs. annually. If a teacher averaged a 7 hr day (including non classroom duties), they’d work just 25 weeks a year.
Yet they need “additional prep-time”. Never mind some of the other 27 weeks of the year available as “off time”, the School Board has just granted a further two day to help teachers better integrate, and I quote: “…the environment and an Aboriginal point of view.” Unquote.
That’s what my 11 year old grandson is going to be learning – so that he can be just like so many other “morally and intellectually superior people.
Madness all around.
Just take a drive around the abandoned factories and neighborhoods of Detroit, and you can come to your own conclusions as to what happened to corporations who went left ”common sense” to move over to ”common cents.”
My Dad visited picked up a new Mercury in Detroit in 1954. He talked about about his trip for years after that. They were building cars, appliances, boats, electrical equipment, etc. etc. etc. and all the while everyone was catering to the unions. At the end of the day, the books still had to balance. And they didn’t ! Silicone valley is just a stopping place between Detroit and Beijing.
I’m with Gavin Mcinnes.
http://www.therebel.media/10_reasons_baby_boomers_are_the_worst_generation
Meh. And Beijing is just a stopping place between Silicon Valley and A.I. Robots. Soon, human labor will be nothing more than an ugly memory. The post-modern Frank Gehry e-factories will stand as empty and hollowed-out as a neo-Bauhaus tire factory in Detroit. Humans will be (marginally) employed manipulating information in the cloud controlling armies of robots in Siberia.
Ha ha ha ha ! Alright, alright … I agree with Gavin’s parents, that MOST Baby Boomer suck. However, I was shocked to learn that I … me … I load the dishwasher like a GenX-er. I always thought that I had simply applied logic (and the Bosch loading instructions) … when in reality I was learning to live like a GenX-er ! Who knew ? And I must say that I share a similar bitterness toward Boomer-dishwasher-loaders like my wife of 32 years. She uses the shark cage method of loading. Idiotic. And don’t get me started on the underhanded toilet paper loading … which is grounds for divorce in ALL 50 states !
PS … my ridiculously overvalued home … IS my retirement account. I cannot wait to sell it to some glassy-eyed GenX-er, take my HUGE windfall PROFITS … and buy some cheap little retirement hovel in Canada. Life will be GOOD !